Welcome, everyone, to Uncovering Asia: The Second Asian Investigative Journalism Conference. From September 23 to 25, we are bringing together top investigative reporters, data journalists, and media law and security experts from across Asia and around the world.

Below you will find more than 60 sessions and special events. There are panels on digging out hidden facts online, the environment, business, and how to fund your project; seminars on security and tracking dirty money; data journalism workshops by the best in the business; and much more.

You can follow us on Twitter at #IJAsia16. On behalf of your hosts — the Global Investigative Journalism Network, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, and the Centre for Investigative Journalism, Nepal, we wish you a big hello! Namaste!

Hazwany Jamaluddin

A multi local Southeast Asian woman who works with Sinar Project as a project lead focusing on OpenSpending and social audit in Malaysia. Her role involves in analysing data on social audits, visualizing budgets at all levels of government in OpenSpending Next, research on policies against budgets, coordinating workshops and building networks with civil society and communities on the ground. Previously, she was the regional Southeast Asia coordinator with Open Knowledge International for Global Open Data Index 2015. Prior to Sinar Project, she worked as a data analyst in Tungsten Network, an electronic invoicing multinational company. She holds BA in Mathematics and Statistics from University of Selangor, Malaysia. She is passionate about topics related to open data, freedom of information, feminism, humanitarian work, sex education and mental health.